Truncation
/trʌŋˈkeɪʃən/
Definitions
- (n.) The act of shortening or cutting off part of a legal document, text, or data, often to remove extraneous or sensitive information.
The lawyer applied truncation to redact the confidential sections of the contract.
- (n.) A data processing technique used in legal discovery or database searches to retrieve variations of a word by removing its ending.
Truncation was used in the keyword search to cover all suffix variations of the term 'contract'.
Forms
- truncation
- truncations
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Commentary
In legal drafting and e-discovery, truncation must be used carefully to avoid ambiguity or inadvertent disclosure of privileged information.
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